New Dark Ages. Colony. Book 1. Max Kidruk

The year is 2141.

Humanity on Earth has not yet recovered from the Clodis disease, which led to the largest pandemic in half a century, when a new pathogen appears that infects exclusively pregnant women. A group of immunologists are trying to find out what it is and whether its appearance is connected to neutrino flashes recorded around the planet.

The population of the Martian Colonies exceeds one hundred thousand inhabitants, and a third of them are born on Mars. They lose the fight for jobs in the science-intensive economy of Mars to super-specialists from Earth and are forced to toil like slaves at low-skilled manual labor. As more of them come of age, the more they yearn for change, not realizing that these changes threaten the very existence of the Colonies.

"Colony" is the first book in the fantasy series "New Dark Ages" about the world in the 22nd century. It is a story about how, despite all the achievements of civilization, man does not change, and neither an increase in life expectancy nor even transformation into a two-planet species guarantees salvation for humanity.